I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
LILY TOMLINMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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